Outdoors
Life Is Good
June 12, 2010
The kids and I spent a couple hours at the ocean yesterday afternoon. The ocean. Friday afternoon. Blue sky. Life Is Good.
Backpacking at Horns Pond and a Creative Recharge
June 6, 2010
Today is my hiking day-off. I realized late last summer that if our family was going be hiking almost every weekend I needed a day off once every few months. Physically, emotionally and mentally. I need this time to recharge my creative batteries. photo credit: Laurent Tougas Time to putter ...
Home again, home again
June 1, 2010
We got home a couple hours ago from our Memorial Day backpacking trip up to Horns Pond in Bigelow Maine. I'm absolutely exhausted in the best kind of way. Going to bed early and looking oh so forward to sleeping in my own climate controlled bedroom. I looked over a ...
A day in the woods to process life
May 24, 2010
I have had much on my mind these days. The change of season from spring to summer and all that entails for family life, figuring out how to manage our small gardens in just a couple hours a week, the growing of my children (Celine turned eleven this weekend, e-leven!), ...
I go to the woods ~ More photos
April 30, 2010
I took so many photos last weekend, too many to share in my last post. So here's the rest (not of the photos of course but of the ones I'm choosing to publish here): If you want to view even more photos (including a mouse in the outhouse) please see ...
I go to the woods
April 28, 2010
We went backpacking last weekend to Gentian Pond. Here are a couple trip reports from last summer: Gentian Pond Trip Report and The rest of the backpacking story. On Friday we hiked 3.5 miles up to the shelter and set up camp there. Saturday we took a short mid-day hike ...
Spring hiking
April 14, 2010
Spring is coming to the Maine mountains, in its usual slow but steady course. The trees are still tightly budded or just starting to show pretty little leaves. This past weekend was the first I'd seen any blooming wildflowers this season, violets to be specific. This is a wonderful time ...
